On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 13:39 +1000, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> Give #haskell is a far larger community than:

Well, Haskell clearly has a well developed IRC community.
Using Google to search Usenet posts in 2007:

Haskell:        21000
Lisp:           29000
Erlang:          2500
Ocaml:           7000

Ruby:          145000
Python:        154000
Perl:          390000

(This includes fa.haskell and probably other mailing list gateways as
well.)

Using Google Scholar to search for papers from 2007:

Haskell:        1310
Ruby:           1670
Lisp:            316
Ocaml:            38

Java:           7650

Unfortunately, all this proves is that if your language shares its name
with a large number of people, it will be mentioned a lot in scientific
papers :-)

> Maybe we need to reconsider where the (FP) mainstream is now? :-)

Getting there, at least.

-k


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